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Professional Nursing Practice Care Delivery Model
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Profound and amazing experiences occur every day at Regions Hospital. The nurse/patient relationship is the foundation of providing excellent patient care. Establishing a therapeutic relationship with each patient and his or her family is essential to providing the best care and best experience for our patients.
Our Professional Nursing Practice Nursing Model, called Relationship Based Care (RBC), maintains an unwavering focus on what matters most: caring and healing at the patients' bedside. The foundation for our nursing model of care is built on the premise that health care is provided through relationships with patients and families. Relationship Based Care is compromised of three crucial relationships: the nurses' relationship with our patients and their families, relationship with colleagues and relationship with oneself.
Relationship Based Care is being implemented into our nursing areas. The nursing staff on the unit begins by electing unit practice council (UPC) members who they believe are leaders. UPC members use the RBC model to determine and implement best practices for their own unit.
Meet some of our unit practice council members.
Shared Governance
Shared Governance builds on the foundation of Relationship Based Care (RBC), creating an inclusive decision-making structure for nursing staff and nursing leaders. This model empowers staff nurses to work with a high level of autonomy, managing their clinical practice and working environment. All committees within the Shared Governance Model will be led or co-led by staff nurses. Organizations with Shared Governance structures have a more creative and fulfilled workforce, lower staff turnover and vacancy rate, improved quality of care and positive work relationships among staff.
 "A Shared Governance Nursing Model is a great way for nurses to work with others to create consistent evidenc based nursing care throughout our hospital. I feel that in order for the nursing department to attin the goals we have set for our patents, we must work together. Staff nurses and administrators working together improves communication throughout our work place leading to a better understanding of each of our roles. We all play an important part in creating an exceptional nursing department which will lead to the best patient/family outcomes." -- Cindy, RN, SICU, Shared Governance Development Team
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) involves performing new research or searching for and critiquing published research and then determining how the best research evidence will be incorporated into practice. Nurses are embracing evidence-based practice; clinical decisions are based upon a foundation of solid science, using research that has applied rigorous epidemiologic methods and has been published in peer-reviewed journals. Evidence-based nursing involves increased reliance on formal, systematic analysis and synthesis of the research literature to determine clinical effectiveness. It challenges consensus-based judgments and applies critical assessment of the available research to make decisions regarding patient care.
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